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6-8-56
CARLETON COLLEGE NEWS BUREAU
Northfield,- Minnesota
Jane Koelges, News Director
Phone 1291
NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA—
For Release: Monday, June 11 P.M^S
"It is the function of a liberal education to teach good manners,"
Judge Harold R. Medina, Second Circuit, United States Court of Appeals,
New York City, told l6l graduating seniors of Carleton College, in a
commencement address delivered at 10:00 a.m. this morning.
Speaker at the school^ eighty-second commencement exercises,
Medina was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, conferred by Dr, Laurence M. Gould, president of Carleton.
"It is curious to see how little seeds, planted in one's mind
in the most haphazard way, grow and develop," Medina told the
graduating class, "We, you and I, go through four years of college,
picking up a little here and there, occasionally inspired to the
point of ecstacy by some teacher whose precepts and whose ideals seem
peculiarly in harmony with our own. We learn, our minds expand, our
talents develop and we leave the hallowed walls of our college a
quite different person from the one who entered as a freshman."
An educational basis for good manners, Medina declared, lies in
the fact that one of the things a liberal education can do is to
give eaGh of us a perspective,
"We peer back into the past as far as our gaze can penetrate; we
look ahead into the future as far as we can see; we have opportunity
to make acquaintance with the aspirations, the dreams and hopes and
fears and doubts of all humanity. We read about the captains and
the kings and the priests and the martyrs, the creative artists, the
poets and those who composed the chants and liturgies to charm the
hearts and soothe the consciences of all succeeding generations.
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SP ftm&i&r .pfeUssr
6-8-56
CARLETON COLLEGE NEWS BUREAU
Northfield,- Minnesota
Jane Koelges, News Director
Phone 1291
NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA—
For Release: Monday, June 11 P.M^S
"It is the function of a liberal education to teach good manners,"
Judge Harold R. Medina, Second Circuit, United States Court of Appeals,
New York City, told l6l graduating seniors of Carleton College, in a
commencement address delivered at 10:00 a.m. this morning.
Speaker at the school^ eighty-second commencement exercises,
Medina was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, conferred by Dr, Laurence M. Gould, president of Carleton.
"It is curious to see how little seeds, planted in one's mind
in the most haphazard way, grow and develop," Medina told the
graduating class, "We, you and I, go through four years of college,
picking up a little here and there, occasionally inspired to the
point of ecstacy by some teacher whose precepts and whose ideals seem
peculiarly in harmony with our own. We learn, our minds expand, our
talents develop and we leave the hallowed walls of our college a
quite different person from the one who entered as a freshman."
An educational basis for good manners, Medina declared, lies in
the fact that one of the things a liberal education can do is to
give eaGh of us a perspective,
"We peer back into the past as far as our gaze can penetrate; we
look ahead into the future as far as we can see; we have opportunity
to make acquaintance with the aspirations, the dreams and hopes and
fears and doubts of all humanity. We read about the captains and
the kings and the priests and the martyrs, the creative artists, the
poets and those who composed the chants and liturgies to charm the
hearts and soothe the consciences of all succeeding generations.
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